Tuesday, March 13, 2012

New Words, Better Than Mine

I've just discovered a new poet, which is something you should do from time to time.

Your brain on poetry. (Note: Still mostly dirt.)

His name is Denver Butson. Here's an interview with him. He's writing really good poetry right now, which is a nice change from reading poems written a long time ago by people who were dead before you were born.

He's on Twitter and Facebook. That seems ironic, but maybe he just wants to make a living and get his name out there, irony be damned. I can relate to the feeling that not everything has to be ironic, dammit.

Here's one of Denver Butson's poems. I'm giving the complete legal attribution, and I mean no infringement or disrespect by reproducing his poem here illegally, guns blazing, and all that. Chances are he'll never see it here, but if he does...hi. I like your poems a lot.